Indian & German Food Requests

Hi M.,

With regards to the food choice of your exchange students... I think it might be quite impossible for you to please everyone at the same time with food of there choice unless you really plan to go out of your way to make something different for everyone. I like might food hot and spicy too while my husband and daughter cant take it, so what i do is sprinkle some of the red pepper flakes (the ones that come with pizza) just on my plate or there's a big variety of hot sauces in the asian stores that can be used too. You should just give him that. While for the german girl, as long as she's not allergic to onions, if you grate it or chop it really fine to a point where she cant see it, she wont even know.
I cook a lot of indian and chinese food, so i know its almost impossible to take onions out of a dish.

I hope that helps.
Take care and take it easy.

Being 16, they should be able to cook some authentic dishes for you! :-) Just take 'em shopping and let them prepare for your family what they would eat at home. I'd think they'd enjoy doing something like that (especially if you all raved about how delicious it was) LOL

Serve the spicy condiments on the side for your guests. You can get bottles of hot stuff at any Chinese Grocery store. There is one at Josey and Beltline in Carrollton and one at Ave K and Beltline in Richardson.

There is a nice Indian Resturant in Village on the Parkway at Beltline and Montfort. Gee, everything seems to be on Beltline somewhere...
L.
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Hi M.,
There's an Indian grocery in Flower Mound (not too great) and one in Lewisville on 3040 (pretty good). However, the Josey/Beltline Vietnamese grocery is by far the best. I think the Chili Paste everyone is talking about is something like Srirachi.... it has a picture of a rooster on it.

Just make everything American and let him add hot sauce to his spaghetti, hamburgers, hot dogs, etc. Part of being an exchange student is experiencing the cuisine of the country. So as long as they are not starving, tell them to buck it up!

Hi M.,
Since I am from India, I can relate to the boy from India wanting spicy food. Since the other kids will not eat spicy food, you can buy the hot chilli sauce from any Chinese store and that will allow your Indian guest to spice up any dish. Crushed red pepper (that you put on pizza) will also work if you cannot find the hot chilli sauce.
Most of the Indian cooking requires onions so you are in a tough spot cooking already! Send me a private message and I can email you some "americanized" recipies for Indian dishes.

Wow, hats off to you for hosting the students and caring enough to want to cook to please them.

Just a suggestion for the hot/spicy, just cook things like you need to for the kids and get some indian pickles from an Indian store. There are stores in Irving and in Plano/Richardson but I'm not sure how far that is for you.

Hello M.,

Being from India we are also used to eating hot/spicy food but as my kids have not developed their spicy buds yet - I buy this chilly garlic paste from vietnamese store near BeltLine and Josey Lane. We just add it to cooked food as per our taste.

Hope it helps you.
-A.

Well, you didn't sign up for this gig to be a short order cook. I think you should just cook a regular dinner, then maybe one night a week let the exchange students pick dinner one night each. Let the shop for the meal too. Time in a grocery store will immerse them in American culture.